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    This document discusses street hawking by children in developing countries. It defines a child and street child, and identifies two categories of street children: home-based and street-based. The main causes of child street hawking are identified as poverty, poor family planning, child trafficking, wars, and illiteracy. The effects include prostitution, rape, disease, poor education, gang activity, and moral decline. Solutions proposed include implementing child rights acts, building orphanages, assisting the poor, and reforming some religious practices.

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    This document discusses street hawking by children in developing countries. It defines a child and street child, and identifies two categories of street children: home-based and street-based. The main causes of child street hawking are identified as poverty, poor family planning, child trafficking, wars, and illiteracy. The effects include prostitution, rape, disease, poor education, gang activity, and moral decline. Solutions proposed include implementing child rights acts, building orphanages, assisting the poor, and reforming some religious practices.

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    This document discusses street hawking by children in developing countries. It defines a child and street child, and identifies two categories of street children: home-based and street-based. The main causes of child street hawking are identified as poverty, poor family planning, child trafficking, wars, and illiteracy. The effects include prostitution, rape, disease, poor education, gang activity, and moral decline. Solutions proposed include implementing child rights acts, building orphanages, assisting the poor, and reforming some religious practices.

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    Child Street Hawking

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    This document discusses street hawking by children in developing countries. It defines a child and street child, and identifies two categories of street children: home-based and street-based. The main causes of child street hawking are identified as poverty, poor family planning, child trafficking, wars, and illiteracy. The effects include prostitution, rape, disease, poor education, gang activity, and moral decline. Solutions proposed include implementing child rights acts, building orphanages, assisting the poor, and reforming some religious practices.

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    CHILD STREET HAWKING

    Introduction
    • Street hawking by children has been a common
    thing in most parts of developing and undeveloped
    world
    • It does not only end on children’s hawking but there
    are causes and its effects on the society at large
    • Irrespective of the causes and effects of children’s
    hawking on the streets , possible remedies can be
    applied by the governments, parents and sponsors
    to solve the challenging issue.
    Introduction contd.
    • A child is defined as any person less than eighteen
    years of age
    • Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defined a
    child as a young human being below the age of full
    physical development
    • Street children are known to be homeless children
    who are below the age of eighteen (18) seen
    wandering along the streets begging for money and
    help from the pedestrians, businessmen, and car
    owners.
    • These children in most cases have no homes and no
    mother to call their own.
    • Child Trafficking is the recruitment,
    transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt
    of a child by means of threat or use of force or
    other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud,
    deception, abuse of power, a position of
    vulnerability or the giving or receiving of
    payments, benefits to achieve the consent of a
    person having control over the child for the
    purpose of exploitation
    Types of street children
    • There are two broad categories of street
    children
    • home-based street children and
    • the street-based children
    Causes of Child Street Hawking
    • The causes of street hawking by children are:
    • Poverty;
    • Poor family planning;
    • Child trafficking;
    • Wars; and
    • Illiteracy
    Effects of Children Hawking
    • The effects of street hawking by children are, but
    not limited to:

    • Prostitution;
    • Rape;
    • Various diseases including STIs;
    • Poor education;
    • Gang stealing; and
    • Moral decline.
    Solutions to Child Street Hawking
    • A number of ideas have to be accessed, examined,
    cultivated and practiced to stop the challenges of
    street hawking by children
    • The solutions to children street hawking are:

    • Implementation of Child’s Right Act;


    • Construction of Orphanage Homes;
    • Reaching out to the Poor; and
    • Amendment of Some Religious Practices

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